Suspender-end



(No Model.)

B. DEMING.

SUSPENDER END.

No. 336,396. Patented Feb. 16, 1886.

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UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

ERNEST DEMING, OF MIDDLETO\VN, CONNECTICUT.

SUSPENDER-END.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,396, dated February 16, 1886.

Application filed November 23, 1885. Serial No. 183,599. fNo model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ERNEST DEMING, of Middletown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented new Improvements in Suspender-Ends; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a face view of the two braces or ends, the one at the left having the buttonhole attached and the one at the right showing the button-hole detached; Fig. 2, a transverse section through the two parts and clips at their connection; Fig. 3, a vertical central section; Fig. 4, a perspective View of the clip complete; Fig. 5, the blank for the clip; Fig. 6, the clip as applied to a strap woven full width.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of suspender-ends, and particularly to that class in which the straps are made of a fabricated material, and with special reference to such as are made from a braid half the width of the strap and doubled upon itself to produce the required width.

In the more general construction of this lat ter class of suspender-ends the braid has been doubled upon itself at its extreme lower end, i and so as to form the button-hole; but such a 1 button-hole is subject to great wear and is soon drawn out of shape, and if the connection 1 between the doubled portions of the braid is broken, as it is liable to be, the suspender- 1 ends become practically useless.

The object of my invention is to overcome these difficulties; and it consists in constructing the button-hole from leather or similar material, with the strapin aseparate piece,the two lapped, combined with a clip adapted to encircle the two, and constructed with spurs to pass through the strap and button-hole portion and bend down upon the opposite side, as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents a strap made from braid doubled upon itself, the two adjacent edges secured together or not, as may be desired. This braid is a common and well-known ma terial for this purpose; but instead of making the strap of sufficient length to form the button-hole at the doubled end of the strap, I double the strap above where the button-hole is to come, as seen in Fig.1.

B is the button-hole portion, which is cut from leather or other suitable material, with the button-hole 0 formed therein. The upper end of this portion B corresponds substantial ly in width to the width of the strap A. The two are laid together, as seen in Fig. 3that is, the upper end of the button-hole portion is lapped upon the end of the strap. The clip D, for connecting the two, is cut from sheet metal, as seen in Fig. 5, the central portion in length corresponding to the width of the strap. At each end of the central portion is an extension or wing, E, in length little more than half the width of the strap. On one edge of the central portion two spurs,a a,are arranged,one each side the center, and upon the opposite side at the center is a single spur, b. The wings E E are turned at right angles to the central portion, as seen in Fig. 4, and the spurs also turned in the same direction. The clip is then set over the strap and button-hole portion, the two spurs a a passed through the strap portion, the spur b through the buttonhole portion, and the wings over the respective sides. The spurs are then turned down toward each other onto the strap and buttonhole portion. Then, the two. wings turned over the spurs, as seen in Fig. 2, the clip closed hard upon the parts firmly secures them together, the two clips taking through the fabric portion of the strap support it, while the j single spur is sufficient in the leather end to cially designed for the doubled-braid strap before described.

It will be understood that the straps are secured at their upper ends in the usual manner for suspender-ends or braces.

I claim-- 1. The herein-described improvement in suspender-ends, consisting of the fabric strap A, the button-hole portion B, made separate from the said strap, combined with the clip D, the said clip constructed with a central portion corresponding to the width of the strap, and with an extension-wing, E, at each end, with spurs a a upon one edge, and a spur, b, upon the opposite edge, the said spurs turned at right angles to the body of the clip, the said parts A B lapped one upon the other, the spurs passed through them and turned down upon the opposite side, and the wings E E turned over said spurs, substantially as described.

2. A suspender-end consisting of the strap A, made from braid doubled at its lower end and returned upon itself, the button-hole portion 13 made separate from said strap and lapped upon the said doubled end, combined portions of the said two parts, substantially as 5 described.

ERNEST DEMING.

\Vitnesses:

O. R. WVooDwARD, F. B. HARRIs. 

